A resolution demanding an end to the discrimination against the Jews in the Soviet Union” was adopted tonight at a conference held at Hotel Edison here, attended by more than 1, 000 delegates from trade unions and Jewish fraternal and cultural organizations. The conference was called jointly by the Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish National Workers Alliance, and other groups.
The resolution urged “the end of quotas against Russian Jews in education, the restoration of Jewish cultural institutions in Yiddish and Hebrew, the right to maintain cultural and religious contacts with Jewish communities abroad, and freedom of immigration for those who wish to rejoin their families separated as a consequence of the war and the Nazi persecution.”
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